Professional Sports in Graz

Hi,

Now its time to talk about professional sports in Graz. About sport clubs and famous sportstars from Graz.

A world champion which came from Graz was Jochen Rindt. He was world champion in the Formular 1 in 1970. He tied through an accident in a race. We also have an olympic champion. His name is Harald Winkler and he won the golden medal in the wintergames 1992 in the "four-man bob".

Graz has also professional sport clubs in basketball, icehockey, football (soccer) and so forth. I will write about a football club. The clubs name is SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz

The club was founded 1909, that means this year the celabrate 100 years SK Sturm Graz. The SK Sturm Graz is a two time winner of the Austrian championship and three time winner of the Austrian Cup. The biggest internatinonal success was to reach the quater finals in the Uefa Cup and of course the three time participation in the UEFA Champions League. In the Champions League the club reached to next round by beating really strong european teams like Glasgow Rangers, AC Monaco and Galatasary Istanbul. This was a really good time for the club. In this time Sturm Graz was the richest club in Austria. But than they fall. Because they made bad transfers and lost a lot of money. But now the club is becoming better again, with a really good young team. At the moment they are 4th in the Austrian Championship. 

Thats it for today. See you soon!